Nine Paths Of Asura - 67 And So the Stone Sky Falls

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A terrifying cacophony of sound came as the stone surface of mushrooms caps above Lineir disintegrated into fragmented madness!

KACHA! PENG!

Everywhere, monstrous lines of pure cutting force destroyed the mushroom caps and exploded the stalks into showers of golden honey which deluged Lineir as they fell. The omidirectional ominous feeling of danger reached it’s pinnacle as the shattering of the caps descended to include the stalks and approached Lineir! Instantly he planted his legs on the stalk and ripped Mei out tumbling into freefall!

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From all sides he felt the sensation of coming death and he twisted and turned in the air like a cat to face the indestructible blade as a shield to such threats.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Invisible forces which would have ripped his body to shreds slammed into the blade, and Lineir felt horrifying impacts of…

“Air pressure?” he thought, as his bone scythes instantly extended to protect his arms, and his legs began to glow orange with the light of fire Qi. Mei screamed in his ear,

“Faster! Faster! Not good enough!” And Lineir felt the number of hits increase as the stalks around him disintegrated even faster, keeping pace with his fall and almost overtaking him!

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“Too slow!!!!!”

His eye’s narrowed and he decided to gamble, rotating using the force of the impacts in free fall to face directly towards the ground.

WHOOSH!

His fire Qi wings spread open and he shot downwards like a flaming meteor! Surpassing the zone of destruction, he pointed Mei’s blade to the ground and stabbed madly at the ground hoping to clear a hole in the ground to cushion his landing and to hide from the hell which had formed behind him.

“Lightning Slash! Lightning Slash! Reverse Lightning Slash! Field of Lightning!”

He twisted in the air at the last second before impact and launched his most powerful kick as well so that all his abilities would strike as he landed.

“Blast Cross Kick!”

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

Lineir’s sight fell dark as a terrifying impact shuddered through him.

When he came to, he smelled burnt earth and honey and croaked out as rivulets of sweet honey fell into his mouth,

“Did we make it?” He heard a cold snort as Mei remarked,

“Kiddo, I don’t know if you are the most unlucky bastard for encountering these situations, of if the Heavens truly favor you as you survive every time.”

Lineir didn’t hear any more of that terrifying sound, and the explosions had stopped. He himself was in a surprisingly shallow smoking pit formed by his abilities maybe a few meters deep. He frowned,

“That’s odd… why did my abilities only form such a small hole…I’m not overestimating myself…” Mei cut in quickly,

“Hah! Take a look around, your abilities did exactly as you expected, it is the land around you that has changed!”

Quickly, Lineir clambered out of his hole, and didn’t understand at first. Then he gasped. All around he saw gradually sloping walls of earth and honey, it was as if an incomprehensibly giant bowl from the heavens had scooped out the side of the mountain and taken it with it! Just gone! However deep Lineir’s powers had burrowed into the ground, whatever devastating power had done this had almost caught up to him while also taking out half a mountain at the same time!

“What power have I offended this time….” Lineir muttered under his breath only to hear Mei’s voice dripping with sarcasm,

“Little disciple, you don’t seriously think YOU were the reason a Rank 1 Celestial Beast descended right? Don’t be ridiculous, Fate itself must be broken for you to be present at so many strange events. What you just witnessed was the descent of the Rank 1 Celestial Beast, Celestial Honey Hummingbird! It is famed for traveling across dimensions to find honey and it must have been attracted here by the honey contained in these mushrooms. The passing beats of its wings from leagues away are capable of creating the destruction you saw above, creating a sound reminiscent of the sharpest blades which can cut silk draped upon them, and if it ever had the intent of destruction, its beak can pierce the veil between worlds! Count yourself fortunate to have witnessed its abilities and survived!”

Before Lineir had time to process the scale of this beast, a vast shaking came and he fell face-first into the rivulets of honey flowing back down into his hole. As his face was about to be submerged in the golden pool of honey coagulating at the bottom, he saw a glowing purple light. Then he plunged down into the honey puddle and somehow sunk through, breaking through some sort of surface like a skin. His hands desperately flailed trying to claw some purchase but to no avail, the honey simply submerged him completely and he slowly continued to sink amidst the dim purple light.